infocus Magazine
6 Mar 2021
by Bernardo Cesare

infocus #61 March 2021 MicROCKScopica

I have been studying and photographing rocks under all sorts of microscopes for more than thirty years. I enjoy this part of my work as a geologist more than ever. A good optical microscope, with a well-trained eye, is still the essential tool for successful research in my field.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.201

Along with their scientific use, I have explored the aesthetic power of rocks and minerals under the microscope with my project called “micROCKScopica – Rock Art”.

I would never have used the high word “art” for rock photomicrographs, until I read that “art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible”. It looks as if Paul Klee (Creative Confession, 1920) may have had the content of this article specifically in mind!

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